Israeli Police Evict Settlers From Illegal Outpost

Yesterday, Israeli police began evicting several dozen hardline Jewish settlers and supporters from an unauthorized outpost settlement in the West Bank. The Israeli Supreme Court declared the settlement named Amona—the largest of about 100 similar outposts—was built on private Palestinian land and ordered it demolished. The eviction took place shortly after the Israeli government announced controversial plans for 3,000 new homes in other West Bank settlements.

Israeli settlers sit inside a settler house in protest at the Amona outpost, northeast of Ramallah, on February 1, 2017 as security forces evict the hardline occupants of the wildcat settlement outpost in line with a High Court ruling that determined the homes were built on private Palestinian land.#

An Israeli settler shouts at police from the window of a bus after being evicted on the second day of an Israeli police operation to remove the hardline occupants and their supporters from Amona on February 2, 2017.#

Israeli police surround a synagogue where hardline Jewish settlers barricaded themselves on the second day of an Israeli police operation to evict the occupants and their supporters from the outpost of Amona on February 2, 2017.#

Israeli police evicts settlers from the West Bank settlement of Ofra, following the evacuation of the nearby Amona outpost, on February 2, 2017. The Israeli Supreme Court also ordered the demolition of 9 homes in the town of Ofra, with a target date of February 8.#